by Lois Weiss

John E. Zuccotti, the real estate investor, civic leader and park namesake who championed the revival of lower Manhattan after 9/11, has died at the age of 78. Zuccotti, the chairman of global operations with Brookfield, had also been a partner in Olympia & York, which developed what is now Brookfield Place.

In 2006, a private park owned by Brookfield that had been damaged in the World Trade Center terrorist attacks was restored and renamed in honor of Zuccotti. "Everyone who cares about Lower Manhattan owes him a great deal for what he did to help the neighborhood recover in the aftermath of 9/11," said Larry Silverstein, chairman of Silverstein Properties, which developed much of the new World Trade Center.

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